TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCES

Running head: TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCES
TRANSITION TO PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE EXPERIENCES
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Reflection is designated as one of the most vital process in the nursing profession and is
commonly used by the health care as it benefits the healthcare staff in order to comprehend the
limitations and the strength of the nursing process based on the previous experience. Reflection
of the previous experience of the nurse and the healthcare staff helps them to recollect upon the
previous activities and can be improved accordingly. It helps the nursing students to enhance
their professional skills by identifying the errors in the previous experiment (McKinnon, 2016).
Reflection is based on the two standard formulated by the NSQHS (National Safety and
Quality Health Service), which is medication safety standard and communication for the safety
standard (Safetyandquality.gov.au, 2019). The reflection includes my experience during the
second year of the clinical placement, where I was assigned to assist a registered nurse to take
care of the geriatric patient, who has been suffering from diabetes and is not able to speak
English properly. The reflection is structured with the help of Gibb’s reflective model, which is
one of the most common reflective models used in the health care setting (Husebø, O'Regan &
Nestel, 2015). The assignment consist the medication error or communication error that has been
conducted by me in the clinical placement and evaluation and analysis based on that and the
action plan is formulated accordingly to avoid the error.
Description:
During the second year of my clinical placement, I was assigned to work under a
registered nurse in the management of the geriatric patient, who has been suffering from
diabetes. The patient belongs to the aboriginal population and is not able to speak English
properly and hence she communicates less with us. The training is done to enhance our clinical
skills which are required to provide quality care to the patient. After joining the clinical

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placement, I decided to perform the job by maintaining all the codes and conduct of the nursing
to provide safe and improved health outcome.
As per the care plan of the patient, the patient needs to take the prescribed medication in
morning before having breakfast. Despite of having knowledge regarding the codes and conduct
of the registered nurse, I administered the medicines to the patient without even looking at the
patient’s documentations or asking with the patient or my buddy nurse.
In the evening, I observed that the patient is sweating abnormally and is also feeling
restless and anxious. After assessing the documents, I realized that the patient had been
administered twice with the medication due to my mistake. I narrated the whole incident to my
buddy nurse, she immediately called up a MET meeting and the patient is treated. Though, no
harm had been occurred tie the patient, only the blood pressure has been increased, such incident
could have led to adverse impact.
Feeling:
When I got the knowledge regarding my area of practice for the clinical placement, I was
excited about the experience or the knowledge that I was about to gain from the placement. I was
confident about my clinical knowledge before treating the patient. I was aware about the
registered nurse standard which aims to provide safe and quality care of the patient. Despite of
having knowledge regarding the standard 2 of the registered nurse standard formulated by the
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2019), which states that the a nurse should maintain
a therapeutic and effective relationship with the patient and the family, I was not able to develop
a rapport with the patient. According to the standard 4 of the nursing standard formulated by the
Nursing and Midwifery Board of Australia (2019), comprehensive and appropriate assessment is